Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:34 pm

by cesium

Is recompiling all these packages really necessary?It looks like the main difference is "--enable-gstmix" while rebuilding gnome-media, so maybe only that alone needs to be rebuilt. Or am I missing something?

Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:40 pm

by igorzwx

Hi Cesium!

I am absolutely stupid now after all these experiments.You have to rebuild them both, and do not disable pulseaudio (EDIT: it can be disabled, but you have to edit the install script for "gnome-media", I did this already 2009.11.01).Edit depends. Ans so on.We may better discuss this tomorrow.

Best,Igor

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Though, even that could be addressed building a gnome-mixer-applet package from gnome-applets source, using the configure option --enable-mixer-applet (building a new package permit to not modify the current gnome-applets, built with pulseaudio support in mind); so one gets the old mixer applet too (but I still haven't tried it)."https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/440465

Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:36 pm

by igorzwx

If you want to have mixer-applet, you have to enable it in "gnome-applets", and therefore, to rebuild that package too.

Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:24 pm

by igorzwx

Hi Cesium!

That PulseAudio applet, "gnome-volume-control-applet" was installed to /usr/bin

/usr/bin/gnome-volume-control-applet

I removed it manually and rebooted.

Everything works as before.Because it is working that "mixer-applet" which was enabled in the package "gnome-applets".

CONCLUSION: You have to recompile the package "gnome-applets", if you want to have Gnome "mixer-applet" after the removal of PulseAudio.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Do not forget to disable that evil, PulseAudio's "gnome-volume-control-applet", in System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications -> Volume Control

Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:33 pm

by igorzwx

The solution needs to be improved.

1. It might be possible to prevent PulseAudio's applet, "gnome-volume-control-applet", from installation to /usr/bin

2. The packages are to be renamed in some way, because they are not immune to upgrade.

Just made:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get upgradesudo reboot

and the pulse things were back. Everything was fixed by re-installation of the re-compiled packages.

I have some ideas. Some more experiments.

Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:09 pm

by cesium

Well, you can "hold" the packages to prevent upgrade (e.g. "echo gnome-media hold | dpkg --set-selections").. But all upgrades will have be done by source recompilation...

A pity one can't use the debian packages here - there's no linking to Pulse, and --enable-gstmix is passed to gnome-media.

Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:39 pm

by igorzwx

Why not rename the packages?

I am going to edit some files in the packages and recompile them once more.The result should be

gnome-media-nopulsegnome-applets-nopulseand so on.

The users may simply install such packages and all problems will be fixed automatically.

Re: Experiment with Gnome Volume Control on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:28 am

by cesium

Wouldn't renaming break packages which depend on the renamed packages?